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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 519–543.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of the thoughts of another mind. Ultimately, it is the value of minds connecting with other minds that led medieval readers to care about authorial intention. 43 See, for instance, Michel Foucault, “The Subject and Power,” Critical Inquiry 8, no. 4 (1982): 777–95. 44 Abelard, Exposition of Romans...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 597–622.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Eva von Contzen Chaucer criticism has always grappled with the question of intentionality. While early critics saw no trouble in identifying the voices in Chaucer's texts with the author's intention, authorial intention—not to be confused with autobiographical readings—became the elephant...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 573–596.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Sebastian Sobecki This article takes issue with medievalists’ curated textual practices that coalesce on codicological intentionalism , that is, the implied position of (re)constructing authorial intention through the study of manuscripts and handwriting. Rather than criticize this practice...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 623–640.
Published: 01 September 2023
... intention. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Jasper Heywood early modern English translation Senecan tragedy authorial intention evaluative judgment We must, perhaps, imagine the scene of translation as one of material contact. Jasper Heywood...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 467–492.
Published: 01 September 2023
... less willing to displace agency and intentionality onto other hidden, unconscious sources like the ones glimpsed by Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and Foucault.” It is not the case, declares Farrell confidently, that the idea of “the stability of meaning, grounded upon authorial intention in context...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 545–571.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Stefan Jurasinski Celebrated by a generation of literature scholars, lamented by E. D. Hirsch, the disappearance of the author and authorial intentions as means of interpretation has a history with branches in the study of pre-Conquest England. Long before the twentieth century, Anglo-Saxon...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 September 2023
...James Simpson Almost every interpretative university discipline in or adjacent to the Humanities makes routine, unproblematic appeal to intention as an interpretative move. By proscribing intentionalism as an instrument of interpretation, Literary Criticism is the outlier among adjacent and not so...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 215–239.
Published: 01 May 2003
... dismiss authorial intention and
prefer to work instead within interpretative frameworks generated by hypo-
stases such as, say, Power or Textuality. The antihumanist hermeneutic
schools of the twentieth century repudiated authorial intentionalism, hav-
ing lost faith in individual persons as sources...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 493–518.
Published: 01 September 2023
... parallel in the notion that an author might not know fully what he means in a piece of writing, an idea rejected by Hirsch in Validity in Interpretation , 19–23. See also G. Thomas Tanselle, “The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention,” in his Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 283–303.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., infused with Romantic notions of the author — the framework
within which the first modern editions were produced.8
One casualty of this dynamic has been the anonymous Middle
English romance, for which critical concern with retrieving authorial intent
is particularly ill suited. Because...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2016
... to questions about authorial intent and reader
response) relates to whose interpretation should be prioritized — doctor’s
or patient’s? Both are “reading” the body and the mind of the sufferer, but
with different vantage points, presumptions, and authority. In the twenty-
first century, medical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 May 2024
... statues at Pompeii that capture the victims of Vesuvius in their last moments precisely by way of pure negation of embodiment, the tabula infecta leaves a hollow space in the text that allows the reader to trace the meanderings of the mind at work. The text assumes an integral authorial intention...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 33–52.
Published: 01 January 2020
... in the early modern period.2 Coolahan s focus on the reception histories of these lost texts opens up new possibilities for approaching early modern women s writing, arguing that the channels through which women s texts were read and their authorial reputations were disseminated are central to understanding...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 41–64.
Published: 01 January 2004
... of canonesses, was dependent
upon the Saxon royal court and its support. As a canoness, she did not enjoy
the comparative independence in her authorial choice of secular topics that
the laywoman Christine de Pizan could exploit. Another impediment to her
development as a courtly writer was her lack...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 657–698.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., began to innovate. Ever
since Vasari, this assumption that medieval art was governed by a substitu-
tional model of production rather than an authorial one — that is, by the
desire to imitate previously existing art, thereby effectively just replacing it,
rather than to create and call attention...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 375–399.
Published: 01 May 2000
... to Marotti, the appearance of random dis-
organization that Marcus values is actually an intentional blind—the result
of a conscious attempt to “protect the reputation of Dean Donne from
moral taint.”3
376 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 30.2 / 2000
However, this ingenious...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 507–560.
Published: 01 September 2001
... and the historical
meaning of her own religion.
What did Chaucer know?
But what of the teller behind the teller? Is Chaucer also ignorant? To evade
the question of authorial intention is to avoid the moral force of the issue,
to avoid the consequences of literary practice by retreating into the often
foggy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 287–321.
Published: 01 May 2023
... with the material bases of the world that his poetry putatively commands and spiritualizes. That the image is formatted and added to late manuscripts of the Vox clamantis further indicates an intention to sum up the totality of his work and worldly engagements, making a final testamentary declaration. It is after...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 283–312.
Published: 01 May 2001
... for
definitive allegorical meaning and authorial intention. “The Earl of Cork’s Lute,” in
Spenser’s Life and the Subject of Biography, 167–69.
33 D. M. Loades, “The Theory and Practice of Censorship in Sixteenth-Century
England,” Transactions of the Royal...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 505–518.
Published: 01 September 2000
... to his Muslim alterego.
I intentionally associate here the name of Cervantes with the
Supreme Creator, since he would seem to have the last word in this plenti-
ful work in which he so frequently disputes with Cide Hamete the author-
ship of the text...
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